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Department Lead

Luc Rainville

Principal Oceanographer

Affiliate Assistant Professor, Oceanography

Research Areas

Instruments & Sensors

Mixing—sets the temperature and salinity structure of the ocean and the distribution of chemical species
Circulation—from small estuaries to entire ocean basins, circulation is critical in a variety of processes
Biogeochemistry—mixing and circulation help regulate ocean productivity and ecosystems
Instruments—technology plays a critical role in oceanographic research

See what we design, build, and use in our research…

Photos and descriptions of: Absolute Velocity Profiler (AVP), Deep Advanced Microstructure Profiler (DAMP), Electromagnetic Vorticity Meter (EMVM), Expendable Current Profilers (XCP)/Expendable CTDs (XCTD), Lagrangian Float, Modular Microstructure Profiler (MMP), Salinity/Density Probe, Saglider, Shallow Water Integrated Mapping System (SWIMS), Triaxus, and TriSoarus.

EXPORTS: Export Processes in the Ocean from RemoTe Sensing			Puget Sound Marine Waters: 2016 Report			Successful Wave Glider Mission in Southern Ocean

Projects

Media Coverage

Publications

Sigma Profiler Measurements of Salinity Stratification in the Upper San Francisco Bay Estuary

Zoltan Szuts

15 May 2024

Sampling QUantitative Internal-wave Distributions — SQUID

James Girton, Aurelie Moulin, Emilio Mayorga, Ren-Chieh Lien, Zoltan Szuts

26 February 2024

VOICES of NANOOS Celebrating 20 Years of Collaboration & Innovation

Jan Newton, Roxanne Carini, Nick Rome, Rachel Wold

17 August 2023

Research buoy gets refresh on Bellingham Bay

Cascadia Daily News

Hailey Hoffman

20 August 2024

Autonomous watercraft collects ocean samples

Lincoln County Leader

Steve Card

31 July 2024

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is becoming a plastic haven for some marine life

Wired

Nadine Kahil

28 November 2023

Connectivity between Siberian river runoff and the lower limb of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

Gjelstrup, C.V.B., P.G. Myers, C.M. Lee, K. Azetsu-Scott, and C.A. Stedmon

26 September 2024

Seasonal variability in the semidiurnal internal tide – a comparison between sea surface height and energetics

Kaur, H., M.C. Buijsman, Z. Zhao, and J.F. Shriver

26 September 2024

Mixing and water mass transformation over Discovery Bank, in the Weddell–Scotia confluence of the Southern Ocean

Brearley, J.A., and 7 others including J.B. Girton

19 September 2024